Re: [RRG] Consensus check: mapping granularity

[Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>]

Excerpts from Tony Li on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 09:58:13AM -0700:
> |> The identifier to locator mapping function should support mapping
> |> entries for both host identifiers and their aggregates.
> |
> |"should" ... are you trying to say that it should *support* this
> |but not necessarily do well at it, or that it should support it at
> |the same level of scalability as coarser aggregates, or ?
> |
> |I wouldn't mind just "allow".  Beyond that has serious implications
> |that have to be thought through.
> 
> 
> I would think that we would want to support it as the same level of
> scalability as coarser aggregates.  However, we have not yet
> discussed what level of scalability is a necessity.  Yet another
> item on the discussion list...

"at the same level of scalability" ... I have decided I can't figure
out what you mean.  Are you saying that if we can support 10^10
prefixes we should be able to support 10^10 individual entries as
well?

Scott

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